How Palantir Conquered the World
How Palantir Conquered the World The Corbett Report by James Corbett Imagine a company that knows everything about everyone. A company that is equally at ease helping banks identify fraud as it is helping intelligence agencies track down enemies of the state. A company that can combine pictures of you with your cell phone location data, emails you've written, your health records and credit card purchases and thousands of other pieces of electronic data to paint an intimate portrait of your life—a portrait that any would-be investigator can pull up with a few keystrokes. A company that can target you anywhere in the world at any time. Now stop imagining that company, because it already exists. It's called Palantir Technologies. Founded by billionaire PayPal co-founder and Facebook early investor Peter Thiel , this plucky little Silicon Valley startup has long been the darling of the US military and the intelligence community, and it's increasingly the darling of the corpora